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Continuing
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United
Theological Seminary’s Continuing Education
program provides opportunities for:
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religious
leaders (clergy and lay) to cultivate their capacity
for leadership, skill development, theological study,
and personal enrichment through workshops, lectures,
forums, and auditing. |
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laity
to deepen their theological understanding, increasing
an aptitude for theological reflection, personal enrichment,
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Programs
that are both relevant and creative are held on campus and
in the community, areas churches, out-state Minnesota, and
online. Persons who attend are interested in and seek out
ecumenical settings.
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Faith Community Nurse Course
An 8-session program beginning May 8
Vicki Gustafson, MA, RN, PHN, FCN
Barbara Zell, MS, RN, PHN, FCN
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2008
CONTINUING EDUCATION SPRING EVENTS
Other
Area Events
Educational
Opportunities
for Congregational Leaders
BUILDING A MULTICULTURAL
DIVERSE CONGREGATION
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 8:00 AM-4:30 PM
Building
a Multicultural Diverse Congregation:
What we know. What can be done.
Theory, Study, Practice, Action
This
full day workshop offers practical ideas and resources for
forming and maintaining a multicultural church. There will
be presentations from, and Q&A with, pastors engaged in
multicultural ministries: Luis Alvarenga, First Lutheran Church, St. Paul (Rufus Campbell has had to withdraw); Tim Johnson, Cherokee
Park United Church, St. Paul; Jin Kim, Church of All
Nations, Columbia Heights; Kathy Nelson, Peace Church UCC, Duluth; and David Stewart, Dayton Avenue Presbyterian
Church, St. Paul.
Workshop
focus:
• Theologies of multiculturalism: Pentecostal, Incarnational,
Relational
• Contexts and motivations for becoming a multicultural
church
• Principles of success in, and major obstacles to,
becoming a multicultural church
• Personal and congregational planning for becoming
a multicultural church
• Process of creating and maintaining a multicultural
church
• Available resources and tools
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Herbert
Perkins (Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz, cultural philosophy).
College professor. Expertise in intercultural and inter-racial
communication and antiracism dialogue. Co-creator and
executive director of ASDIC (Antiracism Study-Dialogue
Circles ®). |
| Margery
Otto (A.B. Harvard, J.D. Columbia). Lawyer and
college professor. Co-creator and administrative director
of ASDIC. Member of the Emmaus Antiracism Leadership Team
for the Minnesota Conference of the United Church of Christ. |
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Fee:
$70.00 (includes text, materials, and lunch)
Registration
deadline: Friday, March 21
Event
location: Strobel
Room – McMillan 209
Registration required
Scholarships
available for seminarians and clergy. Please contact 651.255.6138.
We
may not be able to accommodate walk ins.
This
workshop is made possible through the generous support of
The Saint Paul Foundation and is co-sponsored by the United
Methodist Church, Minnesota Conference, CARJ (Committee Advocating
Racial Justice), United, and Church of All Nations, PC(USA).
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CHRISTIAN
EDUCATION CURRICULUM:
AN INTRO TO GODLY PLAY AND GATHER ROUND
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 9:00 AM-2:30 PM
This
workshop, with presentations by Kathy Meyer and Patricia J.
Goldberg, is designed for persons working in Christian Education.
 Kathy
Meyer, certified trainer for Godly Play, will lead
a session giving participants a chance to experience and “taste”
Godly Play. Godly Play is a Montessori-based curriculum for
children of all ages developed by Episcopal priest, Jerome
Berryman. A variety of churches in the metro area, across
denominations, know and love the deep spirituality of Godly
Play and the hands-on approach to stories of scripture.
 Patricia
J. Goldberg, a United Church of Christ (UCC) education
consultant from Des Moines, Iowa, will help participants get
a feel for Gather Round. Gather Round is a relatively new
curriculum developed by the Mennonite Church. It is a Bible-based
curriculum which employs a variety of teaching methods. Goldberg’s
background includes serving churches in Wisconsin and serving
on the UCC national staff. She was associate conference minister
in the Iowa Conference and has developed and written curriculum.
In
addition to the presentations, we will join the United community
for chapel and share lunch, which is provided. For information
on Godly Play, see www.godlyplay.com;
for Gather Round, see www.gatherround.org.
Fee:
$15.00 (includes lunch)
Students: $10.00
(includes lunch)
Registration
deadline: Thursday,
February 28
Event location:
Strobel Room – McMillan 209
Registration required
Due
to lunch being included, we may not be able to accommodate
walk ins.
Sponsored
by the Minnesota Conference UCC Christian Education Team.
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FAITH
COMMUNITY NURSE COURSE
TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 6:00-9:00 PM
SATURDAYS, 8:30 AM-4:00 PM
MAY 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 20, 22, 24
This
inter-faith course will discuss the steps in initiating a
faith community nurse (parish nurse) program, the role of
the faith community nurse, and the impact this important ministry
offers a congregation. This course, endorsed by the International
Parish Nurse Resource Center, is the Basic Preparation Course
and is open to registered nurses interested in faith-based
community nursing.
Instructors:
Vicki Gustafson, MA, RN, PHN, FCN
Barbara Zell, MS, RN, PHN, FCN
The instructors have 20 years of parish nurse practice together
and are current faith community nurses. Vicki Gustafson is
a parish nurse faculty instructor at the International Parish
Nurse Resource Center.
Fee:
$500.00
Contact hours:
36 CEUs are available
Registration deadline:
Tuesday, April 29
Event location:
Strobel Room – McMillan 209
Registration required
For
information about the course: Contact Vicki
Gustafson at gusty419@comcast.net
or 763.315.4909.
The
initial funding for the curriculum development for the congregational
nurse program came from the ORC (Nurturing Our Retired Citizens)
project of Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis.
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PASTORAL
CARE FOR REPRODUCTIVE LOSS
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Any loss,
whether through miscarriage, infertility, adoption, or abortion,
can carry with it a range of feelings, including feelings
of grief, loneliness, regret, relief, and sadness. In this
workshop we will learn and discuss ways of honoring people’s
real experiences of reproductive loss through our pastoral
care. Participants will learn to create and use ritual in
a counseling setting that will help women and couples experiencing
such loss. Ministers and chaplains are encouraged to attend.
The workshop is also open to seminarians who have taken Pastoral
Care or Clinical Pastoral Education.
 Eily
Marlow has worked with college students both as associate
chaplain and now as the Lilly Program associate at Macalester
College. Through her work in the reproductive choice movement,
the HIV/AIDS community, and with GLBT persons of faith, she
has journeyed with people through both deep loss and great
gladness. Marlow is the former executive director of the Minnesota
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
 Ann
Romanczuk currently serves as board vice chair of
the Minnesota Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
She works as a chaplain at Hennepin County Medical Center,
where she frequently provides spiritual care to women and
couples who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or the
death of a child. A past employee and clinic escort volunteer
at Planned Parenthood, Romanczuk has been a longtime advocate
for reproductive justice. She is also the adoptive mom of
two young adult children.
Fee:
$35.00 (lunch included)
Students: $10.00
(lunch included)
Registration
deadline: Tuesday,
April 22
Event location: Strobel
Room – McMillan 209
Registration required
Please
note, due to lunch being provided, we will not be able to
accommodate walk-ins.
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 PRAISE
BAND 101
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 7:00-9:00 PM
Contemporary praise music is not all 7/11 (seven words sung
eleven times)! Come join in an evening of listening (to examples
of music for contemporary worship), discussion (about music
ministry for musicians, sources for music, arranging music),
and singing and playing in a band. Bring your voice, a favorite
piece of music, or an instrument.
Shout,
a 12-musician house band of Lake Harriet United Methodist
Church, leads worship every Sunday. Shout has performed
for the Minnesota United Methodist Annual Conference and will
perform at the United Methodist General Conference in Texas
in 2008.
Kathy
Webb, director of music ministries at Lake Harriet
United Methodist Church and music coordinator at United, has
many, many years of experience in traditional, classical,
and contemporary music leadership as an organist, choral conductor,
worship planner, and keyboard player.
Fee:
$10.00
Registration
deadline: Monday,
February 18
Event location:
Bigelow Chapel
Registration required
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 SACRED
VOICES: LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF A NEW GENERATION
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 10:00 AM-12:00 NOON
Technology
is continuing to inhabit everyday life. Teenagers are communicating
online daily through Facebook and MySpace and text messaging
in a whole different language. Is the church familiar with
this language? How can we, as ministers, begin to understand
the language they speak? This workshop will cover very basic
vocabulary of this language and explore some of the tools
that younger generations can no longer live without. We will
look at ways in which the church can speak this new language.
Lauren
Busey is a recent graduate of United who is interested
in seeking the connection between the church and popular culture.
In addition to her experience on staff as United's technology
assistant, she is looking forward to integrating technology
into her new role as director of faith formation at Trinity
Lutheran Church in Evanston, Ill.
Fee:
$20.00
Students: $10.00
Registration
deadline: Friday,
April 4
Event location: Strobel
Room – McMillan 209
Registration required
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 WELCOMING
RETURNING WAR VETS
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1:30-2:30 PM
Regardless
of our position on war, churches are called upon to provide
pastoral care and support for the families and extended families
of soldiers who are returning from Iraq. CH (LTC)
John Morris, deputy state chaplain, Minnesota National
Guard, and Dave Thompson, retired Navy chaplain,
will discuss concrete ways in which faith communities can
welcome soldiers who are returning and provide necessary support
for their families. This workshop will focus on just how to
provide comfort, hospitality, and assistance to these individuals
and families.
Registration
deadline: Monday,
March 31
Event location:
Strobel Room – McMillan 209
There is no charge. However, registrations
are requested.
John
Morris is founder of the highly regarded “Beyond the
Yellow Ribbon” program, which the Minnesota National
Guard has implemented to better serve the needs of its soldiers
and their families. This program has become a national model
for other states to follow in their efforts to provide comprehensive
community reintegration support.
Spiritual
Enrichment
TEN
YOU WIN / TEN YOU LOSE
zAMYA THEATER PROJECT
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 10:00-11:30 AM
Ten
You Win / Ten You Lose is set in the year 2016. Prince
is the mayor, it’s 125 degrees in the January shade,
and robot newscasters are reporting that the problem of homelessness
has been solved, thanks to a county government’s ten-year
plan to end homelessness. In interactive fashion, zAmya’s
cast tells how it happened by putting pieces of their lives
on stage and asking the audience to visualize a world without
homelessness.
zAmya
Theater Project has been creating collaborative theater
with individuals from both homeless and housed communities
for the past four years. Each year, they produce and tour
an original road show in November during National Homelessness
and Hunger Awareness Week. zAmya’s mission focuses on
“being-with” as well as “working-for”
those who find themselves homeless, and they strive to increase
awareness, understanding, and advocacy through community-based
theater. Plays emerge from script development workshops held
at shelters, homeless camps, schools and corporations.
Registration
deadline: Thursday,
March 20
Event location: Steckel Learning
Center
There is no charge, but reservations are requested. Please
call 651.255.6138.
This
performance is funded by The Family Housing Fund and Hennepin
County (Heading Home Hennepin).
Other
Events
SAVE
THE DATE - SHADES OF PRAISE
APRIL 18-20, 2008
Shades
of Praise, an interracial gospel choir from New Orleans,
is visiting the Twin Cities the weekend of April 18-20. These
events will be performance dialogues
in which this 35-voice choir and ensemble will perform, followed
by discussions focusing on building the beloved community
– both in New Orleans and the Twin Cities.
Friday
and Saturday evening events, April 18-19, will be held in
St. Paul area churches; Sunday morning, April 20, Shades
will appear at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis. Exact
times and locations will be announced in the weeks ahead.
Co-sponsored
by United Theological Seminary and area churches. For more
information, call 612.747.7540.
Auditing
a Seminary Course
Clergy
and persons with graduate theological degrees may now audit
as many courses as they wish during one term or one academic
year. For example, a person may audit multiple courses
during one term as part of sabbatical work. There is a
$150 registration fee per class.
For
more information or to request a CE
Audit Form, contact the registrar at
651.255.6120 or the director
of community programming at 651.255.6137. A complete
list of courses can be found on this Web site. Course
registration is subject to availability.
Registration
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